A complete history of internet-connected fridges

Another internet fridge.
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There's one piece of technology that's almost guaranteed to appear at every high-tech trade show: the connected refrigerator.

The idea behind a connected fridge is simple: it's a fridge with a screen that can show emails, news, order food, and play TV. But internet fridges have been around since 1998, and they have never taken off.

We took a look at the history of the internet fridge, from early experimental devices in 1998 through to the brand new Android fridge released at CES this year.

1998: Internet fridges are "looming on the horizon"

1999: Internet fridges will help you live like the Jetsons

On January 16 1999, the Deseret News said that internet fridges were a passport to the future where everyone would live like the Jetsons. One expert even claimed that connected refrigerators were "only the tip of the iceberg."